The casino and the duels — all provably fair.
House-built Originals — Crash, Mines, Dice — and real 1v1 CS2 duels. Every roll seed-verified, every match server-verified. We only ever take rake: the house is never your opponent.
Fused from 320 demo features across 28 rounds.
From open bracket to champion.
Scheduled, freeroll-first tournaments turn the ladder into appointment viewing — and every match resolves on our servers, building a public integrity record long before a dollar is at stake.
Two ideas everything hangs on
Strip away the wagering UI any competitor can clone overnight, and these are the load-bearing commitments.
Integrity is the moat
The operator only ever takes rake — never a counterparty. The hard engineering (matchmaking quality, anti-cheat, demo forensics) IS the product.
Money is a feature flag
Ships free first. Cash settlement is a per-jurisdiction switch, flipped last on legal sign-off. The ladder and subscription run free, today.
Principles enforced by architecture
Each guarantee below isn’t a promise on a marketing page — it’s a structural choice in the build, and what it forces downstream.
The operator is never your counterparty — it earns only rake and is indifferent to who wins.
Architecture — No house-vs-player modes, ever. Pure peer-to-peer escrow.
Instant cash-out at true value. No forced wagering to withdraw, ever.
Architecture — Double-entry ledger; withdrawal is a first-class, friction-minimized flow.
Settle in cash or crypto, not skins. The game is a pluggable adapter.
Architecture — The settlement layer never touches Steam inventories — multi-game by design.
Every outcome is committed before you play — provably fair, re-derivable in your own browser.
Architecture — Commit-reveal seeds + a public verifier; nothing is decided on a server you can’t audit.
Real liquidity from day one — scheduled tournaments seed the ladder, never bots at stakes.
Architecture — The tournament & season engine is launch-critical, not a v3 nicety.
Trust is the product: public ratings and demo-backed dispute resolution.
Architecture — Integrity console + public profiles + auditable enforcement.
One staked match, end to end
Every step is server-authoritative. The two-phase settlement keeps honest payouts instant while cheats are held for the integrity verdict.
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Queue
Pick mode + region. Eligibility is gated by your trust tier.
CS2 · 1v1 - 2
Matched
Glicko-2 pairs you with a rating-appropriate opponent.
Rating ± RD - 3
Play on our server
Dedicated srcds with server-side demo recording ON.
demo rec · on - 4
Server-verified
Result comes off the server — it is the authority.
authoritative - 5
Rating + settlement
Glicko-2 updates instantly; payout settles (or holds).
instant / held
Four adversaries. One pipeline that catches them.
A competitor can clone the wagering UI overnight — not three years of anti-cheat tuning, a labeled cheater-demo corpus, and server-side forensics on every match.
Smurfs / alts
Manufacturing a low rating to farm money off weaker opponents.
RD-gated rating + device fingerprint + tiered stake ceilings.
Boosters / ringers
A stronger player logging into someone else’s account.
Behavioral baselining + Steam-tenure signals + trust tiers.
Collusion / chip-dumping
Linked accounts arranging to move money — the laundering vector.
Account-link graph + directional-flow detection + dual-control clawbacks.
Cheaters
Aimbot / triggerbot / wallhack running on the server.
Server-side demo forensics + ML scoring + held-payout on high posterior.
Demo parse
C5 · Go~140 MB demo → parquet
Feature extraction
C6 · Python320+ engineered features
Cheat scoring
C6 · Pythonstat-v1.3.0
Risk fusion
C7 · TSBayesian posterior
Enforcement verdict
C7 · TSauto-ban ≥ 0.92 + ≥2 matches
Provably fair — receipts, not promises.
Trust shouldn't be blind. Crucible hands you the cryptographic receipts and lets your machine check our work — three proofs, all live in the browser.
Provably-fair seeds
We commit to a hashed server seed before the match. Re-derive the map, your side, and the server from it — in your own browser.
A glass ledger
Every settlement is a link in a public hash chain. Recompute it live and watch a tampered entry shatter the chain.
Never your counterparty
See the money flow: players stake each other and we take only rake. The operator never holds a position — it can’t win when you lose.
The ladder is live and free. Climb it.
Crucible runs free today — a high-integrity ranked ladder worth playing with zero money attached. Cash stakes switch on per region, on legal sign-off.